Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scorpion in our shirt," says Lane. "Glass is a man without honor who operated out of hostility and contempt; he has no place in journalism. I've been racking my brain trying to understand how this could have happened...
...Republic editor Charles Lane fired Glass and began a review of the 40 articles he had written for the magazine since December 1995. So far, the magazine has retracted three of them and admitted that part of a fourth is also bogus. Editors at the magazine have found many other obvious fictions, ranging from cults that venerate unlikely politicians ("The First Church of George Herbert Walker Christ") to phony interest groups (an "Association for the Advancement of Sound Water Policy"). In one story, Glass told readers he had made up a town--"Werty, Iowa"--to test the speciousness...
...serial plagiarist is a familiar journalistic type, but the serial fabulist is rare. Glass concocted story after story and slipped them all past his editors and fact checkers, often buttressing his claims with forged notes and interview transcripts and other bogus documents. His work was challenged from time to time--a March 1997 account of a cocaine-fueled orgy at a young-conservatives conference was hooted at loudly--but his career sailed on, with free-lance contracts from a fistful of magazines...
Until last week. A reporter at the online magazine Forbes Digital Tool tried to verify Glass's latest effort, the lovingly detailed story of a pimply 15-year-old computer hacker recruited by the corporation whose data network he had just penetrated. The piece features vivid characters (a "super-agent to the super-nerds," who is said to represent 300 hackers), a trade association called the National Assembly of Hackers and a California software firm called Jukt Micronics. None of it is real. When Digital Tool started asking questions, Glass created a phony corporate website for Jukt and a bogus...
...entitlement. Disorienting, then, to confront the sometimes fatal precocity of the young in Finnegan's marginal world. H.L. Mencken had the American masses down as the "booboisie," hopelessly straight and dull and dumb. Finnegan catches perfectly the way ordinary America today may pass through some moral looking glass into a devouring universal consumers' bazaar wherein the remotest locales sell the fanciest drugs and perversions, and the minds of the young, ungrounded by their absent parents' experience or protection, become unrecognizably weird. Mindy, a model-pretty 17-year-old and former Nazi Low Rider gone over to the Sharps, nonetheless reports...